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Are you loyal to one tea brand?

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petitpois Fri 19-Feb-16 10:33:22

My supermarket delivery substituted my usual Tetley's with Another Brand. I don't think I ever consciously decided that Tetley's was my brand - I've just always bought it. Just made myself a cup of tea and had to throw it away. Are you loyal to one brand of teabag? I don't think I realised I was until now...

Nelliemoser Fri 19-Feb-16 23:57:35

Yorkshire Tea. (Taylors of Harrogate.)

My OH used to try saving money by trying cheaper brands of tea but I just would not have it.
We eat well and are not extragavant with food, so one thing I am not going to skimp on is making sure we have a decent cup of tea. I don't actually know if is any more expensive than other brands.

ASDA seems to change the price of an individual tea bag by the number in each box every few weeks. Sometimes the 240bag boxes are cheaper per bag and other times it's the smaller boxes. You have to keep your wits about you and check regularly. I am a deadful tea addict.

gillybob Fri 19-Feb-16 23:46:28

Yorkshire tea for me petitpois There is no substitute .

Nvella Fri 19-Feb-16 23:30:06

PG tips always for me. I have to take a supply with me whenever I go abroad as I can't stand the ubiquitous Liptons

TwiceAsNice Fri 19-Feb-16 22:58:41

Tetleys for ordinary tea and I like Twinings Earl Grey

Purpledaffodil Fri 19-Feb-16 21:07:08

Interesting how many people like PG Tips. We drank no other tea for years, but recently it seemed to get very weak and insipid. We have changed our allegiance to Tetleys, but intend to try Yorkshire Hard Water when the current supply runs out. I had loose tea, made in a pot and served in a china cup and saucer at a meeting this week. Don't know the brand, but it tasted wonderful and there is something so nostalgic about sitting with a cup of tea on a saucer. Different experience altogether to 500 ml brewed with a tea bag in a Kath Kidston mug. brew

downtoearth Fri 19-Feb-16 20:16:45

PG tips,Typhoo,or yorkshire tea,also Twinings breakfast if I am out...

Greymary Fri 19-Feb-16 18:02:14

I go for PG Tips bags now. Depends so much on the water quality.
Sainsburys Red Bush is a very nice decaff tea I find.
A good Assam is my favourite.

chelseababy Fri 19-Feb-16 16:55:23

Typhoo but Sainsburys don't stock it any more so I switch between Tetley and Pg. If I go to Poundland I buy the Typhoo one cup bags.

hildajenniJ Fri 19-Feb-16 15:22:44

Yorkshire tea for me! brew

Lavande Fri 19-Feb-16 15:07:55

Any tea bag on promotion except Liptons Yellow Label.

Teetime Fri 19-Feb-16 13:58:26

Twinings

grannylyn65 Fri 19-Feb-16 13:52:24

Its the way you get a large pot with one teabag!angry

Greyduster Fri 19-Feb-16 13:52:12

I only drink Tick Tock (otherwise named 'Toxic' by DH) red bush tea. Have tried other brands but they are all horrible. I keep Twinings Earl Grey for DD and Yorkshire for DH and everyone else. If I'm out I don't drink tea.

ninathenana Fri 19-Feb-16 13:09:08

PG Tips every time. If they are on offer I bulk buy. I never drink tea when I'm out as I'm such a connoisseur fussy bugger smile

Marelli Fri 19-Feb-16 13:03:36

Tetley for me. I drink many cups of it throughout the day. However, my DGD brought me some Rington's back after she'd been visiting her partner's granddad in Newcastle. He used to work for the company and he must be able to 'get it cheap' wink) I love it!

J52 Fri 19-Feb-16 12:56:52

I only drink green tea with lemon, it's got to be Clipper.

x

Indinana Fri 19-Feb-16 12:49:09

Thanks Auntieflo (my DH had an auntie Flo, and it's her face I always see when you post wink). I shall definitely try the M&S brand next time I'm in there.

merlotgran Fri 19-Feb-16 12:33:18

PG Tips or Ty Phoo.

annodomini Fri 19-Feb-16 12:32:19

Waitrose's own brand Ceylon leaf tea; Dragonfly redbush Earl Grey tea.

obieone Fri 19-Feb-16 12:02:48

Mainly Tetley. Will try another occasionally, and then go back to Tetley.

Auntieflo Fri 19-Feb-16 11:52:48

Indinana, why not try M&S decaffinated tea. I bought some for my DIL, and it's been lurking in the cupboard. When the decorators finished up all our supply of ' builder's tea bags' , refusing our Earl Grey, they had to have the M&S ones. They were deemed OK, and I have since tried them, and they are fine, 1bag in a mug makes a good strong brew.

Indinana Fri 19-Feb-16 11:41:51

Well I hope you all have some feelings for me, a lifelong tea whore, who has just been instructed by the uro-gynae clinic to drink only decaf tea from now on sad. So out with all the decent tea, and in with (thanks to DH's love of economy) Tesco's own brand of decaf tea - an insipid tasteless drink that doesn't deserve the name, quite frankly. I know there are some better ones out there and I shall make sure I'm at the helm next time we go shopping for them!

rosesarered Fri 19-Feb-16 11:17:31

or do you lock him in a cupboard?

Anniebach Fri 19-Feb-16 11:17:17

Tetley for me

rosesarered Fri 19-Feb-16 11:17:05

but then there is the annoying monkey Ana to contend with.